Spain
Spain (España) is located in Southwest Europe, occupying the Iberian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; a member of the European Union; by tonnage the leading ports are Algeciras, Barcelona and València. State ports are managed by Puertos del Estado which executes port policy of the government; made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports.
Puertos del Estado announces management appointments
Puertos del Estado has announced the appointments of Pilar Parra Serrano and Mar Chao López as the new Corporate and Operations Directors, respectively...
Valenciaport bets in its 2020-2024 Business Plan for the railway, the environment and accessibility
The Plan of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), agreed with Puertos del Estado, represents an investment of more than €552 million in new projects to which...
The circular economy is proposed as the best short-term solution to boost the sustainability of European ports
The LOOP-Ports circular economy project, coordinated by Fundación Valenciaport and co-financed by EIT Climate-KIC, held its final conference yesterday in...
Increase in exports and imports raises Valenciaport’s traffic by 20.5% in November
More than 7 million tonnes of goods were moved in November, 14% more than in the same month last year – December 17, 2020 With just a few weeks to go...
SEAPort Solutions will carry out the first implementation of a PortCDM system in Latin America
The Spanish start-up SEAPort Solutions has signed an collaboration agreement with the Valenciaport Foundation to provide technical assistance in the...
Huelva port and local and chamber of commerce promote ZAL to entrepreneurs
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2020 – The Huelva Port Authority and the Huelva Chamber of Commerce have today presented the strengths of the...
Barcelona port reports positive November cargo traffic
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2020 – The month of November was positive for goods traffic in the Port of Barcelona, reversing the negative...
Bilbao port says ready for any kind of Brexit
Various port stakeholders and logistics services have detailed the measures they have taken to address Brexit in a seminar on short sea shipping –...
BEST terminal improves the efficiency of container transfer between ADTs
The BEST terminal of the port of Barcelona has registered greater efficiency in the transfer of containers between Termporal Warehouses (ADTs) since on...
Gijón port increases fish catch
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 16, 2020 – In January-October 2020 the port of Gijón recorded an increase in landed fish of 75.6% compared to the...
Gijón port sees total traffic down over 8% in Jan-Nov 2020
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 16, 2020 – In the first eleven months of 2020 the port of Gijón handled a total of 14,947,830 tons, down 8.5%...
Noatum set to expand operations at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 15, 2020 – The Port Authority of Santander (APS) is set to modify the concession currently held by Noatum to...
Port of Barcelona collaborates with Singapore to guarantee the safety of maritime crews against COVID-19
The Port of Barcelona supports the Singapore Shipping Tripartite Alliance Resilience (SG-STAR) Fund, an initiative in which the International Transport Workers...
Bilbao port to host Brexit event
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 10, 2020 – SPC Spain is hold an event called Shortsea Bilbao: Preparing for Brexit in the port on December 16, 2020....
Valencia port registers new historical milestone in movement of containers from a ship in a single stop
MSC GULSUN ship moves 9,718 containers (TEUs) on the scale carried out between 8 and 10 December in Valencia, almost a thousand containers more than the...
Unions at Bilbao port agree to suspend strike
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2020 – The unions representing longshoremen in the port of Bilbao have agreed to suspend the strike that they...
Malagaport presents new promotial material for cruise industry
The Port of Malaga and the destination, both the capital and the province, as well as the cruise terminals today presented the new promotional material for the...
PortCastelló begins the procedures for the drafting of the construction project of the intermodal station
The mixed commission approves the functional study of an infrastructure that will save logistics costs and generate wealth in its environment – December...
Port of Cádiz reduces its carbon footprint with electricity supply service to trailers with LNG
The Port of Cádiz, Divergent Energy and Primagas (a subsidiary of SHV Energy) have teamed up to carry out a pioneering energy solution in the Spanish port...
Green hydrogen will be produced at the old Cemex plant in Lloseta
The Balearic Port Authority (APB) will transform the Maritime Station No. 4 of the port of Palma to become a building with almost zero energy consumption in...